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Answer the following questions based on the article. Correlations among Stress, Physical Activity and Nutrition: School Employee Health Behavior

1. Are the research problems, methods, and findings appropriate given the researchers' institutional affiliations, beliefs, values, or theoretical orientation?
2. Do the researchers demonstrate any favorable or unfavorable bias in describing the subject of the study (e.g., the instructional method, program, curriculum, etc.) that was investigated?
3. Is the literature review section of the report sufficiently comprehensive and does it include studies that you know to be relevant to the problem?
4. Is each variable in this study clearly defined?
5. Is the measure of each variable consistent with how the variable was defined?
6. Are the research hypothesis, questions, or objectives explicitly stated, and, if so, are they clear?
7. Do the researchers make a convincing case that a research hypothesis, question, or objective was important to study?
8. Did the sampling procedures produce a sample that is representative of an identifiable population or that is generalizable to your local population?
9. Did the researchers form subgroup to increase understanding of the phenomena being studied?
10. Is each measure appropriate for the sample?
11. Is each measure in this study sufficiently valid for its intended purpose?
12. Is each measure in this study sufficiently reliable for its intended purpose?
13. If any qualitative data were collected, were they analyzed in a manner that contributed to the soundness of the overall research design?
14. Were the research procedures appropriate and clearly stated so that others could replicate them if they wished to do so?
15. Were appropriate statistical techniques used, and were they used correctly?
16. What is the practical significance of statistical results considered?
17. Do the results of the data analysis support what the researchers conclude are the findings of the study?
18. Did the researchers provide reasonable explanations of the findings?
19. Did the researchers relate the findings to a particular theory or body of related research?
20. Did the researchers identify sound implications for practice from their findings?
21. Did the researchers suggest further research to build on their results or to answer questions that were raised by their findings?